Greg is a Senior Features Writer at Screen Rant. He majored in Film Production at Chapman University and worked in Development at ABC Television.
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Summary There are several significant details in The Talented Mr. Ripley novel that are left out of Netflix's Ripley. The acclaimed new psychological thriller series is based on the 1955 novel The Talented Mr. Ripley written by Patricia Highsmith, who is regarded as one of the best authors of suspense of the 20th century. The Talented Mr.
11 Bob, Ed, & Cleo Are Tom’s Friends In New York Tom is much more connected than it seems in Ripley Tom, who is undoubtedly a loner in the miniseries, actually has several acquaintances in New York that he parts with before heading to Italy. It was astounding and pitiful how naïve he had been, how little he had known about the way the world worked, as if he had spent so much of his time hating Aunt Dottie and scheming how to escape her, that he had not had enough time to learn and grow. – The Talented Mr. Ripley, page 36
Marge is interested in going to church in the book, whereas that detail is not as much of a feature of her character in the series. Marge also tells Tom at the end of Ripley that she plans to return home to Minnesota, but in the book, she is from Ohio. There's no clear reason why that detail was changed in Zaillian's translation from book to series.
Fausto, the Italian language tutor who teaches Tom and Dickie the language in Mongibello, makes an effort to come visit "Dickie" in Rome after tracking down his location. On that note, Freddie was also about to track "Dickie" down not from the phone book as in the series, but from a local Italian boy who had spotted Dickie's flashy apparel and jewelry.
It's inferred that Tom's Aunt Dottie dies in the Ripley series, which Tom even confesses to Marge when she visits him in Venice. It's clear that Tom might have been coming up with a quick excuse in the series to justify the lavish house he was living in after Marge asked him who died so that he could afford it, which she also asks in the book.
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